glaciate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin glaciātus, past participle of glaciō (“freeze”).

Verb

glaciate (third-person singular simple present glaciates, present participle glaciating, simple past and past participle glaciated)

1. To cover with ice or a glacier.
2. To erode with a glacier.
   • 1900, Annual Reports of the Department of the Interior, United States: Department of the Interior, page 188:

     The nivated and glaciated areas shared the same snowfall and the same climatic conditions […]

   • 1965, Lawrence Martin, The Physical Geography of Wisconsin, Univ of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 217:

     At that point the cuesta is 10 miles wide but the hilltops have an eastward descent of only about 62 feet. In its general eastward slope the surface of the cuesta is exactly that of one made by weathering and stream erosion, acting upon a gently-dipping limestone bed in a region never glaciated.

3. To freeze.

Derived terms

• glaciated
• glaciation

Related terms

• glacier

Translations

To cover with ice

• Bulgarian: заледявам (bg) (zaledjavam)

Anagrams

• caligate

Latin

Verb

glaciāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of glaciō